Excerpt from The Commercial and Financial Chronicle and Hunt's Merchants' Magazine, Vol. 34: A Weekly Newspaper, Representing the Industrial and Commercial Interests of the United States; January to June, 1882, Inclusive The stock exchanges in New York and other cities absorbed more than the usual attention, as centres of a constantly growing financial business in which the whole community is more or less interested. At the New York Board the price of seats advanced in the first half of the year to over but fell off again in the latter part of the year when commission business was less profitable. It was notable that the first six months of the year had much the larger business, and for the whole year there was an increase in stocks but a decrease in railroad bonds. The total sales of all stocks were in round figures shares, against in 1880 and in 1879. The sales of railroad bonds amounted to' against in 1880 and in 1879. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.